Sonic Advance 2

Sonic Advance 2
Developers: Sonic Team, Dimps Publishers: Sega (JP/US), THQ (US), Infogrames (EU) Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in JP: December 19, 2002 Released in US: March 10, 2003 Released in EU: March 18, 2003 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article

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Sonic Advance 2 is the second game in the Sonic Advance series, mostly known as the game that introduced Cream.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

The copyright information from the title screen on a black background.

White text for the title screen that says "TGS ver.". It was probably used during the Tokyo Game Show.

An unused background that can be seen in a trailer that was included in Sonic Mega Collection. It was later used for the options screen in Sonic Advance 3 albeit with a different palette.

(Source: Sonic Retro)

Build Dates

Present at 0xCD6224 (Japan) and 0xCD6650 (US/Europe):

Japan	US/Europe
0.93 Thu Oct 25 00:00:00 2002	0.94 Thu Oct 25 00:00:00 2002

Debug Save

Not having an SRAM chip on the cartridge will unlock everything in the game. This is also the case for the other Sonic Advance games.

Regional Differences

A romanization mistake is present in the title card of True Area 53 in the Japanese version. This was corrected is the US version but is oddly still present in the European version.

Japan/Europe	US